Mary C. Caul moved with her husband Peter to Arnold's Cove from Davis's Cove during the 1960s. She had an incredible memory for the lengthy ballads that she heard as a young girl growing up in Clattice Harbour. She was a regular at the St. John's Folk Festival for a number of years and she sang at church concerts and gatherings in Amold's Cove. Mrs. Caul loved to sing and share her songs.
A Few of Mary's Songs
Crockery Ware
A comic song of courting in the dark.
Collected by Linda Byrne.
There Was a Youth
There Was a Youth starts this long ballad of a lovers separated and reunited Video clip from the 1977 Newfoundland and Labrador Folk Festival. Courtesy of the Digital Archives Initiative. Memorial University of Newfoundland.